A | B |
Babe Ruth | New York Yankeed Baseball Player |
Prohibition | 18th Amendment; No alcoholic drinks |
Installment Buying | Buying on Credit; paying later |
Rebellious young women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, and danced | Flappers |
Henry Ford | invented the assembly Line; mass produced Model T automobile |
Mass Media | Radio, movies, magazines |
First Airplane | Wright Brothers |
Isolationists | wanted America to stay out of foreign wars with other countries |
Louis Armstrong (trumpet), Duke Ellington (piano) | Black Jazz Musicians |
Bessie Smith | female Blues singer |
George Gershwin, Ira Copeland | famous musical composers |
Improved communication and transportation | electricity |
President Franklin Roosevelt's plan to bring America out of the Great Depression | New Deal |
Economic disaster; many people unemployed and living in poverty | Great Depression |
Environmental disaster; caused by over farming land; helped cause Great Depression | Dust Bowl |
Economic disaster that helped cause Great Depression; speculators bought stocks and could not pay back; lost all money | Stock Market Crash |
Unwritten laws that separated blacks and whites | Jim Crow Laws |
African-American artists, writers, and musicians celebrating their history, art, and culture | Harlem Renaissance |
Movement of African Americans north to escape racism and find jobs | Great Migration |
Female artists; painted urban scenes and scenes of Southwest | Georgia O'Keefe |
Harlem Renaissance painter; painted Great Migration | Jacob Lawrence |
Harlem Renaissance poet | Langston Hughes |
Amendment that overturned 18th Amend. and Prohibition | 21st Amendment |